Introducing Hot Topics
MIT CISR is excited to bring a new type of event to our member organizations! Featuring leading-edge research findings from a variety of MIT and MIT Sloan sources, Hot Topics will be delivered online without an attendance cap. Anyone from an MIT CISR member organization who is interested in the topic can register to attend.
Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier of Generative AI
with Fabrizio Dell'Acqua
Fabrizio’s talk will cover the results and implication of his recent research, with co-authors, on the impact of Generative AI on knowledge workers, specifically consultants. This research shows that the landscape of human/AI collaboration is marked by what can be described as a "jagged frontier" of Generative AI capabilities. When consulting tasks were within this frontier, consultants using AI were significantly more productive and produced significantly higher quality results compared to a control group. However, outside the frontier of current capabilities, there's a delicate interplay where humans might lean too heavily on AI, leading to potential oversights. This evolving frontier serves as a backdrop to the broader discussion on the transformative potential of AI.
About the presenter
Fabrizio Dell’Acqua is a postdoctoral research fellow and teaching fellow at Harvard Business School and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH). He received his Ph.D. in Management from Columbia Business School.